Reading response to the Percy Jackson series.(edited version)

Right now, I am currently reading the "Percy Jackson and the olympians."series by Rick Riordan, and I am on the third book. I love these books for three main reasons. One; it is hard to put this book down. Two; I can connect deeply to the main character, which is Percy Jackson. Three; Rick Riordan creates a fantasy world that is surprisingly realistic and believable.

Ussually, reading is boring to me, and often makes me sleepy, but not this series. In my opinion, Rick Riordan did a wonderful job creating a wonderful series of books that keep you on the edge of your seat. This is a good feature for a book, and especially for a series because it will always make the reader want more, and go buy the next book in the series.

The second reason I love this series is because the main character(percy jackson) and I have a lot in common. First of all, we share great and supportive mothers. In this series, Percy's mom helps him get through hard times, and so does mine. She also pushes him and encourages him whenever he is down, and once again, my mom does that too. Another way I connect to Percy is the fact that we are both very close to the friends we have, but we don't have manny friends. The last way Percy and I are connected is that we are both thirteen, which makes these books even more interesting to me.

The last reason I love this series is becaus the author, Rick Riordan, creates a fantasy world that is convincingly realistic. My two favorite book genres are realistic fiction, and fantasy, and this series combines the two. Even though I understand magic and ancient Greek gods don't exsist, these books make it fun to believe they do.

Percy Jackson and the olimpians is a great series of books that I recomend to someone of any age to read, if they have not already read it. In these addictive mind boggling books, Rick Riordan invites you to a new realistic magical world where anything can happen.

Media/News assignment # 1

SOCIAL ISSUES:
. Major bullying. like kids bringing guns and knives to school.
. Mom killing her infant daughter.
. Lady throwing a bucket of puppy's into a river.
. Facebook bullying.
. Train station stabber.

REFLECTION:
         All of these horrible social issues I saw on the news makes me think about how terribly horrible people there are in this world. Also, it makes me think about all of the social actions that could be done to solve or help these social issues. For facebook bullying, its mostly kids, so more schools should have big assemballys to show that that is a wrong thing to do. For kids bringing guns and knives to school, maybe the parents can raise them a bit better and make sure that doesn't happen again. At least this does not happen at ms51! In my opinion, there should be more police officers at train stations so their arent too many more train station stabbers.